Wolf Hamm

Narration and mysticism are equal keywords of the artistic work of Wolf Hamm. The analysis of the family as a social fabric acts as a thematic starting point and his main source of inspiration. Hamm transforms these immanent and interactive relations into complex structures of concrete and abstract motifs. This formal dynamic reflects the multi-dimensionality of the individual in connection to the society: Secretive and tender appears the family unity, which is at the same moment confronted with primal fears of separation and transience. The compositional challenge of Hamm’s paintings, drawings and cuts allegorize the fragile balance of these constructs and opens up a pictorial and intellectual room, in which individual thoughts are equal to a superior cognition.